How to install a program from GitHub?

I am very new to GitHub. Recently I downloaded a program for printing in Sublime Text from GitHub. Here is the link: https://github.com/svenax/SublimePrint But after I downloaded the program called SublimePrint-master.zip, I don’t know how to install it in windows. It doesn’t look like there is a setup file or installation file after I unzipped SublimePrint-master.zip. Would anyone give me a hint how to install a program from GitHub? Many thanks.

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Look for a readme (well-behaved projects should provide one). There’s not a universal way to install packages.

Mar 28, 2018 at 2:04

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GitHub is not a store app. There is no “guide on how to install an a program from github”. Github is a platform where developers put their code*. Any code. It could be a Windows program. It could be an Android program. It could be html. It could be a library. It could be a snippet of code. It could be code in a language invented by the developer. It could be his shopping list.

Some repositories have a Readme that guides how to compile or install the program. But that is just up to the developers that posted the code. If there isn’t a readme then try to figure out what kind of code it is (e.g. a Sublime plugin) and search the web how to install that kind of code.

(*) it’s more than that, but for the purposes of the question let’s limit to this

answered Mar 28, 2018 at 2:06
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See this answer for how to install Sublime plugins: https://stackoverflow.com/a/15652795/4494

The plugin also contains a file INSTALL.txt , which should be a good start to read about, well, installing it: https://github.com/svenax/SublimePrint/blob/master/INSTALL.txt

answered Mar 28, 2018 at 2:04
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Install Python Package from Github [Linux and Windows]

This article is about how to install python package from GitHub, for this, you must have the latest version of python installed in your system.

How to check if python is installed or not?

Before getting into the procedure of how to install python package from GitHub the latest python version installed is a must. So to check if your system has python go to the command prompt and type

python -version

This will be the output if the version is installed

But if it is not installed, python not found will be displayed on the command prompt.

Install Python Package from Github on Windows

How to install a python package using pip install?

Usually, in python, a package is installed using the command

pip install packageName

But sometimes, if a newer version of the library of the package is available, it might not get installed using this command, for that, we will learn how to download and install python package from Github.

Install Python Package from Github in VSCode

First of all, go to Github, and search for the package that you need to install. You need to make sure that the package has a “ setup.py ” file, for example in our case if we want to install the flask package from GitHub, I will search for the flask python package, and then check if it has the file “ setup.py ”.

After making sure that there is a setup file, go to your VS Code, in case you do not have VS Code, you can download it and set up a virtual environment.

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The command to set up the virtual environment is :

python -m venv environmentName

After setting up the environment, go to your source using the following command

source environmentName/bin/activate

And then write the following command to install the package using GitHub

pip install -e git+github-url-of-the-package#egg=packageName

In my case, if I want to download the flask package I will write

Install a Python Package from Github Using Windows Command Prompt

This method is simpler, just open the windows command prompt to install python package from GitHub and write the following command

pip install -e git+github-url-of-the-package#egg=packageName

In my case, if I want to download the flask package I will write

The command prompt will show some output and will notify if the package is installed or not.

If successful, the following output will be shown :

Obtaining flask from git+https://github.com/pallets/flask#egg=flask Cloning https://github.com/pallets/flask to c:\users\azka\desktop\python\src\flask Running command git clone --filter=blob:none --quiet https://github.com/pallets/flask 'C:\Users\Azka\Desktop\python\src\flask' Resolved https://github.com/pallets/flask to commit 9b44bf2818d8e3cde422ad7f43fb33dfc6737289 Preparing metadata (setup.py) . done Requirement already satisfied: Werkzeug>=2.0 in c:\users\azka\appdata\local\programs\python\python310\lib\site-packages (from flask) (2.1.2)Requirement already satisfied: Jinja2>=3.0 in c:\users\azka\appdata\roaming\python\python310\site-packages (from flask) (3.0.3) Requirement already satisfied: itsdangerous>=2.0 in c:\users\azka\appdata\local\programs\python\python310\lib\site-packages (from flask) (2.1.2) Requirement already satisfied: click>=8.0 in c:\users\azka\appdata\local\programs\python\python310\lib\site-packages (from flask) (8.1.3) Requirement already satisfied: colorama in c:\users\azka\appdata\roaming\python\python310\site-packages (from click>=8.0->flask) (0.4.4) Requirement already satisfied: MarkupSafe>=2.0 in c:\users\azka\appdata\roaming\python\python310\site-packages (from Jinja2>=3.0->flask) (2.1.0) Installing collected packages: flask Running setup.py develop for flask Successfully installed flask

Install Python Package from GitHub on Linux

Install git on Linux (pre-requisite)

To install python package from Github on Linux you need to have git installed on your system. for that please type the following command on your Linux terminal.

sudo apt install git

The following output will be shown :

Reading package lists. Done Building dependency tree Reading state information. Done git is already the newest version (1:2.25.1-1ubuntu3.4). git set to manually installed. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded.

Install python package on Linux using pip

Let’s suppose we want to install a package “moviespy” from GitHub, go to the Linux terminal and type the following command:

pip install git+https://github.com/Zulko/moviepy

The following output will be shown

Successfully installed decorator-5.1.1 imageio-2.19.3 imageio-ffmpeg-0.4.7 moviepy-2.0.0.dev2 numpy-1.23.0 pillow-9.2.0 proglog-0.1.10 tqdm-4.64.0

Install Python Package from Github by cloning the git repository

Another way to install Python Package from Github by cloning the git repository, for this process write the following commands

$ git clone link-to-github-repository

$ git clone https://github.com/Zulko/moviepy

the output will be as follows

Cloning into 'moviepy'. remote: Enumerating objects: 8208, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (44/44), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (38/38), done. remote: Total 8208 (delta 20), reused 19 (delta 6), pack-reused 8164 Receiving objects: 100% (8208/8208), 40.60 MiB | 1017.00 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (5776/5776), done. Updating files: 100% (255/255), done.

Then move to the project directory using the cd command

$ cd moviepy

Run the setup.py file to install the package

$ sudo python setup.py install

Conclusion

In this article we have studied how to install a package from python using GitHub, we have studied installation in two environments, one is the virtual environment created using vs code and one is using the windows command prompt.

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